WAR BIRDS: Diary of an Unknown Aviator

WAR BIRDS: Diary of an Unknown Aviator
WAR BIRDS: Diary of an Unknown Aviator
WAR BIRDS: Diary of an Unknown Aviator
WAR BIRDS: Diary of an Unknown Aviator
WAR BIRDS: Diary of an Unknown Aviator
WAR BIRDS: Diary of an Unknown Aviator
WAR BIRDS: Diary of an Unknown Aviator
WAR BIRDS: Diary of an Unknown Aviator
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Title: WAR BIRDS: Diary of an Unknown Aviator
Author(s): GRIDER, John MacGavock
SPRINGS, Captain
Category: War & Military - WW1
New / Used: Used
Book Type: Small Hardcover
Published: 1926
Published By: Cornstalk
Edition: Reprinted 1929
Pages: 266
Size (mm): 110 w x 175 h x 25 d

Condition

First image for illustrative purposes only.

Excellent condition for age, wear on covers, binding intact, pages generally clean and unmarked. Refer images.

About

Diary of a WWI American aviator known to the writer but unnamed in the book. The author served with the diarist as an aviator and apparently published the diary in order to honor an agreement he had with the deceased. In the summer of 1917, more than two hundred American men volunteered for service in England's Royal Flying Corps. John MacGavock Grider, assigned to Royal Air Force Number 85 Squadron, flying SE-5a pursuit planes, was shot down and killed some twenty miles behind German lines in the summer of 1918. This is Grider's story, but in telling it he encompasses the opinions and prejudices, the successes and failures, the lives and deaths of those 210 volunteers. He details the rigors of training, the terrors of combat, and the respite of social activities.

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